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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Fighting off a 'Case of the Mondays'

This post is a reprint from a post I put up on the EtsyPHAT blog yesterday. Thought I'd cheat a bit and reproduce it here. ;-)

A study published in Feb 2008 cites keeping plants at your desk may result in more satisfaction with your job. Based on surveys, the study finds that employees with live plants or windows in their offices had more positive and mellow responses to a range of questions vs. those who lived in a basic cube. Basically, they tended to feel more like people with good jobs rather than rats in a maze with bad food.

This makes me wonder if the move Office Space would have gone differently if the plant on Milton's desk wasn't dead. (check out this clip on YouTube, upper right hand corner)

Moral of the day: fix up your desk with a snazzy new plant and have a better day!

Read more about it:

The original journal article:
Dravigne, Andrea, Waliczek, Tina Marie, Lineberger, R.D., Zajicek, J.M. The Effect of Live Plants and Window Views of Green Spaces on Employee Perceptions of Job Satisfaction HortScience 2008 43: 183-187 [link]

Science Daily Report


LA Times Article

1 comment:

swamprad said...

Interesting, and I certainly believe it. I now work in a dark cave with no glimpse of sunlight from 7 am to 4 pm, and I'd love it if I had a window with a few plants!